Best way for tree leaves

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My generator does not yet use PBR so it may have the same shadow issues.

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SimArboreal Release - Formerly "Tree Editor"

So, I’ve managed to port all of the prototype functionality over to an officially released Open Source library and application called SimArboreal. [image] The project is in two separate pieces. The SimArboreal library. This just contains the base jar and an arboreal-assets jar. If you want to generate trees in your application then you just need this library. If you just want to load saved j3os, all you need is the arboreal-assets.jar Both of these can be found here: (as well as all of t…

It uses camera-oriented quads for the leafs… so they are basically large camera-facing particles that adjust their lighting as they rotate around.

It has LOD:

SimArboreal - Tree LOD 2 Exposed

Animated wind:

Tree Wind Mark 3

…supports instancing, etc.

I used it in this demo:

IsoSurface - Instanced Trees with Wind

I’m not saying it’s the best way… but it’s the way I did it and I thought I’d pre-answer any other questions.